Politics and the passions, 1500-1850 /
Kahn, Victoria Ann.
Saccamano, Neil,1952-
Coli, Daniela.
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-309) and index.
Tempering the Grandi's appetite to oppress : the dedication and intention of Machiavelli's Discourses / John P. McCormick -- Difficult engagements : private passion and public service in Montaigne's Essais / Timothy Hampton -- The bachelor state : philosophy and sovereignty in Bacon's New Atlantis / John Guillory -- Hobbes' revolution / Daniela Coli -- Happy tears : baroque politics in Descartes' Passions de l'âme / Victoria Kahn -- The desire to live : Spinoza's Ethics under pressure / Judith Butler -- A mind for passion : Locke and Hutcheson on desire / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse -- Rousseau's quarrel with gratitude / Patrick Coleman -- Parting with prejudice : Hume, identity, and aesthetic universality / Neil Saccamano -- Vico, "tenderness," and "barbarism" / Riccardo Caporali -- Kant and the relegation of the passions / Howard Caygill -- Beliefs and emotions (from Stanley Fish to Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill) / Frances Ferguson.
Political science.
Emotions.